The Hood to Coast Relay Race begins Friday morning. Runners and walkers will be passing through Southeast Portland. Take a look at their route.

Adam Lindsay tried out Kuang's Kitchen, which replaced Green Wok in the West Portland Park neighborhood. He rules: "It's not going to give local standouts like Taste of Sichuan or Pure Spice a run or even a walk for their money, but that isn't why you come to places like Kuang's. You're here to exchange a few dollars for a ton of food, and at that Kuang's Kitchen excels."

A Tibetan refugee who has been living in Portland for about six years is heading to Santa Fe to study film courtesy, in part, of Robert Redford. Read about Lobsang Tenzin's journey from Tibet to a boarding school in India to New York City and, eventually, the City of Roses.

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Movies in the park: Frozen will be shown in Laurelhurst Park Friday. Live music begins at 6:30, movies begin at dusk.

Elizabeth Murray, who has photographed Monet's Gardens in Giverny, France, for 30 years, will read from her new book about nurturing yourself as you would a garden on Aug. 25 at Annie Bloom's Books in Southwest Portland.

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